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This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.

by dsofer 12y ago

netcan 12y ago
It is, but this is a little light on information. The course: What's the ciriculum. What's the structure. Will it be focused on building a project? Is this one-on-one instruction, classroom based, mentorship based, mostly self taught? What's the target/prerequisite level of student experience? The Free: How is it free? Donors? Volunteers? Is this the pilot for a for profit project?
- wyclif 12y ago
  http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum
  - dsofer 12y ago
    Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teach two programming languages at once to absolute beginners is madness.
    - nailer 12y ago
      Could you link to the current curriculum on http://foundersandcoders.org/ http://foundersandcoders.org/? I know someone interested but saying "there's an HN thread with the details" doesn't sound particularly legit.
      - dsofer 12y ago
        Good suggestion. Done.
- dsofer 12y ago
  It is part of a larger project funded by from public sources. It is not a pilot. The June course will be the third one we have run this year. We are exploring funding from various sources. We may end up charging at some point, but the model we are trying to pursue is to keep the value/cost ratio as high as we can.
- mrcdima 12y ago
  Here's another useful link http://camdencollective.co.uk/academy/ http://camdencollective.co.uk/academy/ There's a video in there and some other current info. The main website should incorporate more of this information though. Right now details are scattered around twitter feeds, multiple websites, semi updated pages and this thread (hn is probably the best source of info right now).
  - dsofer 12y ago
    This should now no longer be the case. There are links to both a FAQ to the "Current course" materials on the website.
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This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.

by dsofer 12y ago

This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.

netcan 12y ago

It is, but this is a little light on information. The course: What's the ciriculum. What's the structure. Will it be focused on building a project? Is this one-on-one instruction, classroom based, mentorship based, mostly self taught? What's the target/prerequisite level of student experience? The Free: How is it free? Donors? Volunteers? Is this the pilot for a for profit project?

wyclif 12y ago
http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum
- dsofer 12y ago
  Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teach two programming languages at once to absolute beginners is madness.
  - nailer 12y ago
    Could you link to the current curriculum on http://foundersandcoders.org/ http://foundersandcoders.org/? I know someone interested but saying "there's an HN thread with the details" doesn't sound particularly legit.
    - dsofer 12y ago
      Good suggestion. Done.
dsofer 12y ago
It is part of a larger project funded by from public sources. It is not a pilot. The June course will be the third one we have run this year. We are exploring funding from various sources. We may end up charging at some point, but the model we are trying to pursue is to keep the value/cost ratio as high as we can.
mrcdima 12y ago
Here's another useful link http://camdencollective.co.uk/academy/ http://camdencollective.co.uk/academy/ There's a video in there and some other current info. The main website should incorporate more of this information though. Right now details are scattered around twitter feeds, multiple websites, semi updated pages and this thread (hn is probably the best source of info right now).
- dsofer 12y ago
  This should now no longer be the case. There are links to both a FAQ to the "Current course" materials on the website.
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